Have you noticed that kde.themes.org has not been as active as everything else in the kde world? Apparently, they need some help to maintain the site. If you have "intimate knowledge of the KDE theme system" then you may be the person for the job. If you're interested, email cjr and ElCoronel.

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>Have you noticed that kde.themes.org has not been as active as everything else in the kde world?

Definitely! I was looking forward to getting some REALLY cool themes for KDE 2.0. There's so much potential! With the new theming improvements, KDE can be made to look like anything you want. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to find any good themes at all. Hopefully kde.themes.org will become more active in the future. BTW, I haven't tried the GTK theme importer. Does it work well?

I wonder if it's just a matter of updating the site or if it's also true that nobody is creating themes? I think I'll try my hand at porting a few themes to kde as soon as I get some time off for the holidays. I'd create my own, but I'm not artistically gifted. :( Hopefully there is some good stuff out there that has an open license.

I haven't tried the GTK theme importer either, but it's said to be faster under kde that in a GTK environment! Personally, I'd rather use a native, coded theme than a pixmap theme though.
mosfet.org is a good place to find kde2 theming info/tutorials.

Great Stuff!
will it also handle winowdecortion and will it be ready for 2.1?
Another question: is mosfet still an active KDE-developer? I couldn' find anything in the mailinglists newer than one month posted by him.
Klaus

Regarding Mosfet, yes I think he's busy coding. Because this is what he promised (he used the word "promise" himself) for 2.1:

"Extended color schemes, including the KControl module, will be ready. I
got all the widgets for KControl working and just need to do "HotSpot"
stuff. This is *really* cool - it's cool even with regular styles like
"CDE" being able to select different colors for scrollbar buttons vs.
sliders, etc... :) Two new highcolor styles will be ready - a Marble one
that follows color schemes and a "MegaGradient" one. KWM themes will be
supported by default, but like I said there is no theme installer. A
dedicated Aqua plugin is in the works. Pixie needs to be fixed up and
brought back in, because it kicks ass and honestly I think it's going to
be the most useful thing I've done. OTOH the widget theme engine is
half-rewritten and I need to finish that as well... This is why I am no
longer really paying attention to widget theme engine bugs - the new one
is completely different."

more than a year ago I started coding my own KDE2 style, but haven't finished it yet - mainly because I'm not a programmer and my C++ knowledge is minimal. Still, I hope to finish it sometime in the future, though I don't hope that everybody will like it - it's pretty minimalistic and aimed to be functional and not eycandy. But I hope that thoese who like Motif or NeXT look & feel will enjoy it (if I ever finish it ;-)

I was not using KDE as much before, but since KDE II released, it come my desktop. Anyway, I love to help KDE with both building theme and updating the site. But I truely have not idea about how to creat theme. Looking after or maintain the website maybe ok ..

I don't think the people who are asking for help are reading this site (or they probably would have submitted their request for help). Perhaps you would like to offer your assistance to them and let them decide if you have the necessary skills? You can find their email addresses in the article.

As for theming, mosfet.org has a kde2 theming tutorial. I don't know how good it is because I haven't read most of it yet. You can look at it here if you're interested.